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Heather Cassils
cassils@hotmail.com
Education
2000 MFA Art and Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1997 BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS, Canada
1996 Ecole Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts. Paris, France
Residencies
2010-11 Artist Researcher in residence, Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of Performance Art in Southern California (LAGA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA
2008 Praxis Mojave 08 with Ron Athey, Los Angeles, CA
2006 The Future of Idea Art, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2004 IASPIS International Artist Studio in Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Exhibitions
Transactivations: a performance event in conjunction with the exhibition “Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945-1980” at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, LA, CA
CURRENT (FEB 18- MARCH 24)
Have We Met Before Artists: Eleanor Antin | Chris Burden | Lynda Benglis | Heather Cassils | Marcel Duchamp | Yishay Garbasz | Detlef Henrichs | Christopher Makos | Man Ray | Andy Warhol | Hannah Wilke | Gil Yefman | Rona Yefman
Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY,NY
February 18 – March 24, 2012 – Extended to April 28th
Teresias, Queer City Cinema, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Teresias, accompanied by my brother, a formally trained Opera singer, Matthew Cassils at Commitment Issues, Curated by Jess Dobkin In conjunction with FADO Performance Art Center in Toronto, Canada
Los Angeles Goes Live: Exploring a Social History of Performance Art in Southern California (LAGA), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA
October, 2011 City Of Women Festival in conjunction with the The Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia
2010 Theater of Operations, Movement Research Festival ’10, NYC, NY
2010 Gutted, Los Angles Contempory Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Peaking , Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC
2009 IT’S (A)LIVE: BRAVE LIVE ART FROM LOS ANGELES, Gallery 114, Los Angeles, CA
2008 You Belong To Me, Sweeny Art Gallery and University of Riverside, Riverside , CA
2008 Praxis Mohave, Desert Hot Springs, CA
2008 The Way That We Rhyme: Women Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, CA
2008 The House That Lust Built, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
2007 Shared Women, Los Angeles Conteperary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Ahh Ahh, The Other Gallery, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
2006 Engendered Species,Gatov and Merlino Galleries CSU, Long Beach, CA
2005 Wormhole Saloon, White Chapel Gallery, London, UK
2005 A Certain Tendency in Representation, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
200510104 Angelo View Drive, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida (in collaboration with Dorit Margreiter)
2005 10104 Angelo View Drive, Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Wien, Vienna, Austria (in collaboration with Dorit Margreiter)
2004 Be My Patron performance, USC , Center for Feminist Research, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Be My Patron performance, Pratice More Failure, Art in General, New York City, NY
2003 Be My Patron performance, Neoqueer, Center on Conteperary Art, Seattle, WA
2003 Testigos, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 Br My PAtron, REDCAT, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Toxic Troopers, Outside Field: International Festival, Ex- Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 The Future of Now, Intersectional Femenisim Conference, , UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
2002 LATT, LA Freewave: TV or not TV, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Gendered Geographies publication Launch, Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Speculative Technologies,Modify, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Messy Fingers, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2002 IKEA Poster Collection,Manifesta, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Promise, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 Camp TT D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2002 Toxic Union, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001 Gen. Mod Cafe, LA Freewaves at the Hammer Museum/EDA, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Cyberfem Spirit: The Spirit of Data, Oldenberg Center for New Media, Oldennberg, Germany
2001 Joint Ventures Series; Strength in Numbers, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologn, Germany
2000 Beautiful Strangers, Stevenson Blanche Deveeraux Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Pink Process California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1999 MOVING INTO OUTSIDE, Holland Tunnel, New York City, NY
Screenings
2008 International Film Festival Cinema Le Melies, Art Center of the Maison, Paris, France
2008 10104 Angelo View Drive, Palms Festival, Palm Springs, CA
2006 10104 Angelo View Drive,Vienale International Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2006 10104 Angelo View Drive, Out Fest: The Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Bisexual Film Festival
2006 IKEA Project, Paris Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Bisexual Film Festival
2004 LATT Los Angeles ContemporaryExhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Like Someone in Love, Sticky Bonds, Out Fest: The Los Angeles Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Bisexual Film Festival
2002 IKEA Project, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lectures
2008 Visiting Artist Lecture, San Fransisco Art Institute, Graduate Seminar Class
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, Banff Center for the Arts, Future of Idea Art, Banff, CA
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Manchester, Graduate Seminar Class,
2005 Visiting Artist Lecture, UC Irvine, “Contemporary Artists”: Undergraduate class of 350 students
2005 Panel Discussion “Trespassers”, Rosseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
2004 Panel Discussion, Intersectional Feminism, UC Riverside
2002 Visiting Artist Lecture, Being an individual is exhausting, California Institute of the Arts
2001 Visiting Artist Lecture, Schnitt Austellungsraum,Cologne, Germany
Bibliography
2007 Raizada, Kristen. Interview with the Guerrilla Girls, Dyke Action Machine (DAM!), and the Toxic Titties, NWSA Journal- Volume 19, Number 1, Spring 2007, pp 39-58
Luis Jacob, Commerce By Artists, Art Metrapole
2006 Doyle, Jennifer. Sex Objects: Art and the Dialect of Desire, The University of Minnesota Press, 2006
2006 Ross, Christine. The Aesthetics of Disengagement: Contemporary Art and Depression, The University of Minnesota Press, 2006
2005 Green, Rachel. Internet Art, Thames and Hudson, World of Art Series, p 96
2004 Tang, Joey. “Art Protest-Toxic Titties” Black Book Magazine, Spring 2004, p 60
2003 Rommelmann, Nancy. “Basement Revelry” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 23
2003 Kuiland-Nazario, Marcus. “24 Hour Party People” LA WEEKLEY, Nov 28
2003 Hernandez, Edgar- Alejandro. “Tropa Toxica, Reforma, Mexico City, July 7
2002 Munoz, Jose. Dinner Reservations, Tema Celeste. Nov-Dec
2002 Chang, Jade, LA WEEKLEY, “Boob Tube Cube”, Nov 15-21
2002 Timberg, Scott. Los Angeles Times. “Experimental Art Takes to the Streets” Nov 4, p E5
2001 Boecker, Susanne. “Die Starken eines Bundnisses”, Kolner Stadanzeiger, July 13
Publications
2006 Inside Vanessa Beecroft. signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, by Toxic Titties. University of Chicago: Journal Division, Chicago,, US, 2006
2002 Artist Projects. Gendered Geographies., Ed. Kaucyila Brooke. Zurich: Hochschule fur Gestalung und Kunst Zurich
2001 SITE and Shnitt Austellungsraum,. Schnitt 2001 Site. Krefeld, Germany: Kunstlrt Posteredition, 2001
Grants/ Awards
2010 Los Angles Contemporary Exhibitions Artist Research Grant
2010 Alien of Extraordinary Ability Green Card
2009 Intra Arts, Canada Council of the Arts
2009 Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fund
2008 Merit Scholarship Praxis Mohave
2008 travel Grant, Intra Arts, Canada Council for the arts
2006 Merit Grant, Banff Center for the Arts
2006 Intra Arts, Canada Council of the Arts
2006 travel grant, Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Quebec
2005 travel grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2004 travel grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2003 travel grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2002 Merit scholarship, California Institute for the Arts
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